Posts Tagged reusable
Posted by Candice on February 26, 2010 at 17:33 pm
Friday
“Earth911.com is your one-stop shop for all you need to know about reducing your impact, reusing what you’ve got and recycling your trash. Get involved in our world by checking in for daily news, reading weekly feature stories, surfing product channels and opting into our weekly emails.”
This website got it’s start as a hot line for recycling and has grown into a busy website with around 200,000 unique visitors in January according to compete.com. They do still have their hotline though so you can still call them on 1-800-CLEANUP if you prefer a live person to help you find a recycling location (their database has over 100,000 across the country) or specific information on where to recycle electronic goods or packing peanuts.
Earth911.com has definitely enjoyed more than five minutes of fame having been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America as well as online in the The New York Times. You can also find their content syndicated on sites ranging from National Geographic to the Huffington Post.
If you were to encapsulate their mission, the folks at Earth911 are all about the 3 R’s – reduce, reuse, recycle! They want to show you how to make your trash another man’s treasure or how to direct your trash to the best place for it to be recycled or reused. They want to provide the guidance that will help you to clean up your home, your community and your world by being environmentally responsible.
This is a site the Bidmycleaning team loves! Hop on over to visit Earth911.com today!
Posted by Candice on January 22, 2010 at 00:36 am
Friday
Greenopolis are about doing good. They want to make the world a better place and try to do this by providing positive solutions. Their specific focus is on recycling, reusing, repurposing and conservation.
The Greenopolis belief is that “to actually change the world, recycling and preserving our precious natural resources must be easy and rewarding.” There is a reward system called “Think Green Rewards” which can be earned in several ways. The rewards can be redeemed for discounts and coupons to me used on meals, entertainment, dining, travel and more. Their partners include Marriott, Dominos Pizza and Blockbuster.
At their website, Greenopolis.com , you earn rewards by blogging, commenting and inviting other to join the website community. The website content is focused on proving information and tools to help you recycle easily, learn about conservation and saving our natural resources. The website philosophy is to educate and reward while providing content that is positive, fun to read, visually interesting and provides links to more information where applicable.
The other way to earn rewards is returning aluminum cans and PET to GreenOps Tracking Stations which are being deployed at locations like Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego and Whole Foods Markets. You can find more locations at their website.
Posted by cstone on September 24, 2009 at 14:24 pm
Quick Clean Ups
If we all just for one day looked at everything we consume and use and tried to find ways to clean up our act so to speak we would realize that there are many opportunities to be more green and eco-friendly.
Here are 7 quick ways to send a little less to the landfill:
- Junk Mail: There are 100 billion mail items sent every year in the US. If you think about all the resources that go into making that happen it is mind-boggling. Think of the trees, the water, the power, the mail processing facilities, the cars the mail carriers drive. Just cutting down the amount of junk mail you received will make a huge difference! There are services available to help you do that eg. http://www.41pounds.org/
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Posted by Candice on October 10, 2008 at 22:43 pm
The time has come to toss the wrapping paper and paper gift bags! Clean up your act when it comes to wrapping up the carefully chosen presents you give your friends, families and co-workers. A side benefit is that you’ll never spend time hunting for scissors and the tape again either.
Lucky Crow Gift Bags are a waste-free way to wrap a gift. You will be playing a major role in the elimination of the massive amount of garbage created from the disposal of wrapping paper, tissue paper, paper gift bags, and ribbon – over 2.7 billion dollars a year worth of gift wrap that usually ends up in our landfills?
These gift bags really are are stylish and they are a gift in and of themselves.
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Posted by Candice on September 19, 2008 at 21:44 pm
Todays eco-friendly find is one of my favorites because it helps to keep our neighborhood clean and reduces the plastic waste going into landfills. The creators of the flip & tumble reusable bag want its style, its function, and its emotion to take you beyond the corner grocer to a trendy restaurant, a posh new gym, or even a whirlwind trip through Indonesia? Well, that sounds great but I’m happy just to use mine at the corner grocer – Jimbos. I haven’t been on any whirlwind trips lately but I can see how these handy little bags could be the perfect compact travel accessory. My experience when traveling is that one often ends up buying things that you hadn’t planned on and so having one of these in your pocket for those spur-of-the-moment purchases is perfect.
Hetal Jariwala and Eva Bauer, met while attending Stanford University’s Product Design graduate program. They picked up on a problem that I was experiencing frequently; I was committed to using reusable bags and had a plentiful supply of bags sourced from stores ranging from Trader Joe’s to Costco but invariably I would find myself at the store and there would be no bags in my car because I had forgotten to return them after unpacking the last groceries I bought or it was an unplanned shopping trip. What was the solution?
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